Seminars which took place during the 2007-2008 academic year. Programme Jean-Robert Tyran (Copenhagen) - "Tax Illusion and Communication" (with Rupert Sausgruber, University of Innsbruck) Monday 14 April 2008, 4pm - 6pm Paper Klaus Schmidt (Munich) - "Reputation and Contract Design" Tuesday 22 April 2008, 4pm - 6pm Andreu Mas-Colell (UPF, Barcelona)- “Cooperation through bargaining in the strategic form” Monday 28 April 2008, 4pm - 6pm DHT Conference Room Wouter Dessein (Chicago) - "Organizing for Synergies: A Theory of Hybrid Organizations" Monday 5 May 2008, 4pm - 6pm Paper Peyton Young (Oxford/Johns Hopkins) - "Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning" Monday 12 May 2008, 4pm - 6pm Paper Ran Spiegler (UCL) - “Consideration sets and competitive marketing” Monday 26 May 2008, 4pm - 6pm Paper Jeff Campbell (Chicago Fed) - "Last-In First-Out Oligopoly Dynamics" Tuesday 3 June 2008, 4pm - 6pm Paper Erica Field (Harvard) - "Muslim family law, prenuptial agreements and the emergence of dowry in Bangladesh" Friday 6 June 2008, 2pm - 4pm Paper Attila Ambrus (Harvard) - “A continuous-time model of multilateral bargaining with random arrival times” Friday 6 June 2008, 4pm - 6pm Josepa Miquel-Florensa (York, Toronto) - "Tell me what you need: Signalling with limited resources" Wednesday 11 June 2008, 4pm - 6pm Paper Colin Stewart (Toronto) - “Testing multiple forecasters” Monday 23 June 2008, 4pm - 6pm Conference on Intergenerational Mobility Saturday 27 June 2009, 10am - 6pm Conference Website Seminars (Jan-Mar 2008) Volker Nocke (Oxford) - "Dynamic Merger Review" Wednesday 14 January 2009, 4pm - 6pm Simon Gaechter (Nottingham) - Understanding Social Interaction Effects in the Workplace" Monday 21 January 2008, 4pm - 6pm Subir Chattopadhyay (York) - "Economic Survival when Markets are Incomplete" Sunday 28 September 2008, 4pm - 6pm Thomas Jeitschko (Michigan State) - "Endogenous entry in markets with adverse selection" Monday 4 February 2008, 4pm - 6pm Martin Cripps (UCL) - "Common Learning" Monday 18 February 2008, 4pm - 6pm Alexander Berentsen (Basle) - "Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run" Friday 22 February 2008, 4pm - 6pm Omar Licrando (European University Institute) - "The child is father of the man: Implications for the demographic transition" Monday 25 February 2008, 4pm - 6pm Elu von Thadden (Mannheim) - "Incentives for Unaware Agents" Monday 3 March 2008, 4pm - 6pm Espen Moen (NSM) - "Industry Dynamics and Search in the Labor Market" Monday 10 March 2008, 4pm - 6pm Imran Rasul (UCL) - "Blissful Ignorance? Evidence From a Natural Experiment on The Effect of Information Feedback on Performance" (joint with Oriana Bandiera (LSE), and Valentino Larcinese (LSE)) Monday 17 March 2008, 4pm - 6pm Seminars (Sept-Dec 2007) Federico Weinschelbaum (San Andres) - "Modelling Informality Formally: Households and Firms" Monday 24 September 2007, 4pm - 6pm Paper Karolina Ekholm (Stockholm University) - "Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Occupations, Tasks and Skills" Monday 1 October 2007, 1pm - 3pm 313 WRB Paper Jörgen Weibull (Stockholm SE) - "Language, Meaning & Games: A Model of Coordination, Communication & Evolution" Monday 1 October 2007, 4pm - 6pm Faculty Room, North DHT Paper Friederike Mengel (Alicante) - "Learning across games" Monday 8 October 2007, 4pm - 6pm Fabien Postel-Vinay (Bristol) - "The timing of aggregate employment expansions: New facts & a new hypothesis" Monday 22 October 2007, 4pm - 6pm Simon Clark (Edinburgh) - "Sorting in marriage markets" Monday 29 October 2007, 4pm - 6pm Martin Perry (Rutgers) - "Preferred suppliers in auction markets" Monday 5 November 2007, 4pm - 6pm Paper Daniel Ferreira (LSE) - "Unbundling Ownership and Control" Monday 12 November 2007, 4pm - 6pm Paper SIRE Launch Monday 19 November 2007, 11.30am - 7pm Leonardo Felli (LSE) - "Statute Law or Case Law?" Monday 26 November 2007, 4pm - 6pm Paper Eric Maskin (Princeton) Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize - "Evolution and Cooperation in Noisy Repeated Games" Friday 30 November 2007, 10am - 12pm Abstract Eric Maskin (Princeton) Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize Public Lecture - "How should members of parliament be elected?" Friday 30 November 2007, 4pm - 6pm Orazio Attanasio (UCL) - "Education choices, subjective expectations and credit constraints" Monday 3 December 2007, 4pm - 6pm Conference Room, DHT Victor Lavy (Hebrew, RHUL) - "Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects" Tuesday 4 December 2007, 4pm - 6pm Paper Simon Board (UCLA) - "Relational contracts with on-the-job search" Wednesday 12 December 2007, 10am - 12pm F21, Psychology building (7 George Square) This article was published on 2024-10-01